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The U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers are working to open a new boating channel at Oregon Inlet at North Carolina's Outer Banks because of sand on the existing route.
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The federal government will auction leases Wednesday for two potential wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean off Wilmington. Someday they could power a half-million homes, but there's still years of work before that happens.
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A new bridge that will bypass an often-flooded section of the main road on North Carolina's Outer Banks will open as soon as this week, ahead of the spring and summer travel season. It's a fix for a problem that has worsened with climate change.
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Environmental and citizens groups have filed a federal court appeal in hopes of stopping a half-billion-dollar bridge proposed at North Carolina's Outer Banks. And they're citing sea level rise as an argument.
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The marshes in and around the Pine Island Sanctuary house some 183 different bird species. But they are eroding due to the effects of rising seas and a changing climate. Now, the Audubon Society has embarked on a years-long surveying project to map the habitat of rare, secretive marsh birds. What they hear from the birds will serve as an indicator of what could happen to the marshes.
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The National Park Service was instrumental in building the bridge over North Carolina's Oregon Inlet after establishing Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the 1930s.
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With the pandemic easing its grip, the summer vacation season is expected to set tourism records on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. But business owners won’t be able to take full advantage of the crowds because of COVID-19 and worker shortages.
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As oceans rise and storms intensify, coastlines worldwide are feeling the creeping impact of climate change. But North Carolina’s Outer Banks are particularly vulnerable, and local leaders are proposing drastic measures to save their beaches.
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Property owners in the Outer Banks town of Avon could see their taxes go up to help pay for the cost of fighting beach erosion.
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NAGS HEAD — Two years after a newly formed North Carolina island was lost to storm surge, a new one appears to be rising in its place on the Outer Banks,…